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Why is the holoproject of Luke in color during the Jabba the Hutt scene in Return of the Jedi? To my knowledge, all of the other holoprojectors are blue.

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    I disagree @Valorum, I'm not seeing a dupe there. – Edlothiad Aug 03 '17 at 18:18
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    Oh unless it being set canonically later means the tech improved? – Edlothiad Aug 03 '17 at 18:18
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    @Edlothiad - It speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of holotechnology in Star Wars. Note that there are colour holo-projectors in films set in earlier timeframes – Valorum Aug 03 '17 at 18:19
  • I'm confused why NKCampbell's dup comment has more upvotes than Valorum's... – Arthur Dent Aug 03 '17 at 19:07
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    @ArthurDent When you vote to close a post as "Duplicate", it will auto-generate a comment. When more people vote to close the post with the same duplicate target, it will auto-upvote the generated comment. Here, Valorum (probably) manually posted the comment using that format because he wanted to link directly to the answer; while NKCampbell generated it through the tool. Thus, attributing to the generated comment when more people vote. It's been a while since I've used SE regularly, so I could be off. It could be that he pasted a different link in the tool, creating a different comment. – BlueBuddy Aug 03 '17 at 19:19
  • @Thebluefish Wow I never knew that, thanks! – Arthur Dent Aug 03 '17 at 19:23
  • Thanks, everyone! I didn't realize there were color projects in the Rebel series and I forgot about the colorized Death Star projection. – Don Burdette Aug 03 '17 at 19:28
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    Still, R2 seems to have been upgraded from episode 4. Is there an explanation of this somewhere in the Star Wars lore? – Don Burdette Aug 03 '17 at 19:36
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    @DonBurdette Colour TVs can still display black & white programs, if required. Perhaps R2's projector has always been capable of colourized projection, but Leia simply recorded her message to Obi-Wan in monochrome. (It was dark in the passage where she was recording it, so maybe R2 calculated that monochrome was better since it would just be a dark blur in colour, or perhaps Leia hit the wrong button when beginning the message - she WAS in a hurry what with the Tantive IV being boarded and all.) – Steve-O Aug 03 '17 at 23:57
  • @Arthurdent - As a gold tag badge holder in this category, my dupe close vote is binding. I posted a comment to indicate to other readers that this might be a dupe. I wasn't 100% confident so I didn't vote. – Valorum Aug 04 '17 at 09:45

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